Meteo Xavier

YES! My other track is finally finished and good to go! ALL the music tracks with my name on them are finished and I am one happy aspie sumbitch! Hit me up, Roz, you need this new .WAV I've got.

You're the man, Timmy! Now that's some helpful stuff. I almost want to take you up on your offer of making some synth patches for me, but I don't feel right asking you to do that for free, and I need money to be GOOD for me for the next few months before I can even think about a budget for this just yet. I lost $4,000 in the last 5 months for just out of the blue stuff. I know I have a bunch of those presets SOMEWHERE, but with 10,000+ patches to go through, I haven't found them all yet. What I would need help with most is getting the right arps, choirs and SFX, so I will consider your offer and maybe put some $ on it when I get closer to starting production for real, but we'll see. Thank you either way.

OCR isn't a great mine for freelance graphic artists (at least not to gangsta rap to my knowledge). You might do better looking at deviantart.com if you haven't already.

Hi there. An upcoming project I have will be doing a highly melodic, slightly retro-sounding ambient synth album for a label within the next few months, and while I have more than 10,000 synth presets across my VSTs already, I'm still trying to compile them together and get a structure going. I wanted to know if you, the reader, knew of any preset soundsets that catered specifically towards the quasi-Berlin School sound that the following examples take after. These are not, to my understanding, actually Berlin School, they just seem to be highly melodic, structured ambient pieces similar to them. I'm trying to do tracks similar to: I have the following synths: * Synth 1 * z3ta 2 * Zebra 2 * Arturia Minimoog * Absynth 5 * FM8 * Massive I will likely come back with other questions as to its production as well. And for the record, no, I'm not a synthesist and I have very little skill programming my own synths. If I was going to do that, I wouldn't post here in the first place. Sorry to be blunt on that, but I still get responses that seem to think I'm a programming wizard who just never thought to build it myself any time I ask these questions. Thank you, I appreciate your help in advance.

Chrono Fucking Break. And I want it titled that too. And a mega sequel to Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I'm the only person alive who actually like Ghoul Patrol, but I'd lease my soul to get a proper updated sequel to Zombies with level editor.

Haven't Batman casting choices always been weird by tradition? Let's look at the list: * Lewis Wilson (you don't know who he is) * Robert Lowery (him neither) * Adam West (You know him for his insanity) * Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice) * Kevin Conroy (voice actor) * Val Kilmer (The guy who clicked his teeth at Tom Cruise in Top Gun) * George Clooney and the ***damn Batman nipples. * Christian Bale (American Psycho) * Will Arnett for Lego Batman (Pretty much the creepy arrogant guy in everything he's in). Really, why shouldn't Ben Affleck fit in there? The only actor even remotely considered iconic in the role is Kevin Conroy for God's sakes.

I'm potentially interested. How far on the project are you and what kinds of music are you looking for?

Because the topic is pretty serious business in the first place, right? What is wrong with a (thankfully) creative answer to an otherwise dull question?

Also late commentary pointing out the obvious for lulz! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! You just got Bleckserved. Seriously though, I would think most Guitar Center employees should be on the up about this now. Unless you have a store that deals in computers, people who walk in with a laptop would probably arouse suspicion. Then again, last time I went to Guitar Center I was playing a Roland Juno something, the guy behind the counter showed me a VST of a Juno knockoff that was free... and thought I was going to buy him lunch or something as a result. So who knows.

I will gladly accept an award trophy of this if you will make one. To clarify, I mean to put that in the context of "if I knew then what I know now" then I would've put that time and money towards better use. My music ministry of gloom is to balance the reality of doing music for people who want to do more than just compose for their own amusement - because any time I see someone posting for advice on what its like to actually do music for a living, 95% of the response is "Well, just do the music you love and people will buy it. :D" or "Well, just work hard, never give up and you'll succeed. :D". It's all flowery philosophy that never even touches the reality of doing music commercially. I frankly would've wanted someone giving me blunt reality 10 years ago instead of all-purpose fortune cookie advice and most newbs today damn well need it. It wouldn't be a problem except a huge portion of them really believe if you just buy FL Studio and EWQLCC, you'll be the next Jeremy Soule. We still occasionally get people posting "Should I release my album on an indie label or a major label?" as if they actually believe you can just walk into Interscope with a CD-R and walk out with a contract. It's baffling. Didn't mean to rant or go offtopic here, but surely I'm not the only person in this thread who's been composing for a while and really felt that sting no one talks about. I will accept your award, but I do it with glee knowing because there is actual community service in it. While you guys are out there giving fortune cookie advice to boost their self-esteem and your own album sales, I'm telling the other side of the story to separate the real artists from the poseurs.

Ten years ago. Probably the stupidest decision I've ever made, but I'm ten years deep into it now - no sense in quitting at this point.

Slightly offtopic, but if the women are bros too, who wears the bras? #icecreamkoan

But maybe we could do that as a side-bonus album?

I don't kiss ass when it comes to... well, anything, so take it with the utmost objective favor when I say I'm fucking-A proud of you for getting on this project, Oji. You're the real deal and don't let no one tell you otherwise.

Man, I was just listening to it at the same time you posted about it. That was the whole point with the title. I can't stand lazy, uninteresting song titles. I want people to listen to it, so I chose one that would help it stand out. Thanks for the review, man. Good to see some people still listen and enjoy this.

Dubstep is as much an art form as any other kind of music, people just like to hate it on the same way they did Techno, Nu Metal, Olde Metal, Punk, Prog, Rock and Roll, etc. because at the time, it wasn't for everyone, and current human nature dictates that if you want people to think something of you, you need to bash what you perceive everyone else (or "the mainstream" or "the popular people" or "the sheep" as they're often referred to) is doing or listening to to create an air of genuine superiority without actually doing anything to back it up with. You gotta admit it really takes something to make a genre built on half-time rhythms explode in popularity.

Actually, do you have AIM or a similar chat thing that isn't Skype? That might be easier.

Sounds good. I'll be sending you an email here shortly.

YES! My redo of Long Goodbye is finished! And, I hope I don't jinx myself here, I think its probably one of the best mixed and least problematic remixes I've ever done. Strings still don't sound 100% or probably even 90% realistic, but I think you guys will enjoy the end product all the same. A nice and pleasant comedown after so much epicness.

Man, I've been looking for SHMUP work like this for a while now, but it's sort of indie industry practice to be weary of employers wanting to use your music commercially while not offering any money for them at the same time. I assume that's why you were using the phrase "donations", you were looking for artists to give out already made tracks as opposed to working for free - which can be more reasonable. Are you taking on multiple artists for this soundtrack or how are you doing that?

Xenogears and Xenosaga. See you next year. >

Well hot damn, if anyone got the job, I'm glad it was him.

If it's in green, go for it.

Almost finished with my redo for LONG GOODBYE. I'm going in an entirely different direction with this and making it a slow, pleasant, orchestral coda-kinda track. Not epic and not award-winning, but a pleasant come-down track after all the big epicness of the project. It was highly inspired by this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZpcyYVRoAo. Need Rozovian to PM me so I can hear back from you on them, mang.

I wanted to answer the question to provide some caution against PLAY's highly controversial program setup. My criticism was that people tend to specify product recommendations for a reason, but I keep seeing responses that try to direct to other products without much regard for what the OP wants, and its rarely helpful.